Dark Kingdom Koreana: Dragon's Wake

This is a 3rd-party release by Dave Thaumavore. Includes a printed zine and the PDF.
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DARK KINGDOM KOREANA: DRAGON’S WAKE is a standalone naval skirmish game of cannon fire, boarding actions, desperate maneuvers, and catastrophic ship damage set during the Imjin War between Korea and Japan (1592–1598).

Dragon’s Wake can be played as its own fast tactical miniatures game or dropped into any tabletop RPG.

The game features:

• Fast, tactical naval combat built around positioning, wind, cannon fire, small arms, boarding, ramming, repairs, and command decisions without bogging play down in simulation.
• 14 Korean and Japanese vessels, from tiny fishing skiffs, ferries, and patrol boats to panokseon, turtle ships, atakebune, and enormous fictional warships built for truly massive encounters.
• Distinct rules and abilities for every ship, making your choice of vessel fundamentally change how you approach a battle.
• Catastrophic Damage and Derelict rules that turn destroyed ships into unpredictable battlefield events, from fires and flooding to far stranger consequences.
• Captain and crew mechanics that give commanders meaningful decisions every round while enemy fire steadily degrades a ship’s ability to fight.
• 10 skirmish scenario frameworks with example maps, including escorts, duels, recoveries, breakthroughs, hazardous rock gardens, and other objectives beyond simply sinking the enemy.
• Environmental and tactical rules for wind, positioning, rock formations, dangerous waters, and other complications that turn the battlefield itself into a weapon.
• A ship generator with millions of possible vessels across the game’s 14 ship classes.
• A complete digital VTT asset pack, including color top- and side-view ship tokens, hex maps, rock formations, objective tokens, ship sheets, and other tools for building your own battles.
• Print-and-play assets for taking Dragon’s Wake from the screen directly to the tabletop.

Play a desperate coastal skirmish. Command a squadron. Escort a vulnerable merchant ship through hostile waters. Hunt an enemy admiral. Or put two massive fleets on the table and see what survives.

DRAGON’S WAKE began with naval rules originally developed by Luke Stratton of Limithron for PIRATE BORG, then extensively modified and expanded into its own game for increased speed, tactics, and of course the warships of 16th-century East Asia.

Written and illustrated by Dave Thaumavore. All artwork in Dragon’s Wake was created by a human.

Dark Kingdom Koreana: Dragon's Wake is an independent production by Dave Thaumavore and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games, Stockholm Kartell, or Limithron LLC. It is published under the MÖRK BORG and PIRATE BORG Third Party Licenses. MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell. PIRATE BORG is ©2022 Limithron LLC.